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"When will Canadians realize that Pierre #Poilievre and his federal MP's are campaigning on the failures of conservative provincial premiers? Canada's media is NOT pointing out that fact."
"#Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary #ImperialOil [claim] that carbon capture and storage is “critical” to achieving the “climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement” ... has been removed in recent weeks from the Imperial site following the passage in late June of new anti-greenwashing legislation in #Canada, according to a DeSmog analysis. "
Known as Bill C-59, the legislation [imposes] penalties of up to $10 million for false statements."
What he fails to mention is that
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld Carbon Pricing because if it was removed there would be ....
👉 "irreversible consequences for the environment, for human health and safety and for the economy — if Parliament were unable to constitutionally address the matter at a national level.”[10]"
Another KEY POINT the Conservatives always forget to mention:
"Pierre #Poilievre cannot actually cancel Canada's carbon tax because having one is a requirement of most of our trade agreements with other countries and 'axing the tax' would void those agreements."
Cons also forget to mention Pierre could however cancel your cash rebates...immediately.
There are over 41 million people in Canada, how is it that Pierre #Poilievre manages to "randomly meet" so many unsavoury ones?
Here's Poilievre grinning in a selfie with Carl Grant, a convoy alum who spit on Liberal MP Marco Medicino this Friday. Although spitting is considered a criminal offence, Ottawa police did not arrest Grant, after he said he "didn't mean to."
Visuals of some local, suburban #rewilding efforts in #RoyalOak. Much of the area has been heavily developed. There's lots of fab rewilding work being done in some areas - almost all due to local volunteers/nature stewards & kind donations from public.
The efforts have paid off, after several decades of community volunteer efforts. Many wildlife & pollinators have safer habitat to live in. There's enough food for them to share in rewilded areas.
This Canadian Member of Parliament asked ChatGPT for a list of capital gains tax rates by country, got a nonsense answer, screenshotted it, and then tweeted the incorrect information.
The Migrations conference starts today, woot! See attachment for a list of free-to-attend lectures - I'll be moderating the film keynote on Friday. It'd be great to see people!
Today in Labor History June 19, 1938: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Vancouver cops attacked strikers with tear gas and clubs on Bloody Sunday. Over 100 were injured, with over 43 hospitalized. The strikers were primarily unemployed men, affiliated with the Communist Party. They had been on strike for months and had occupied hotels, the Vancouver art gallery, and post office. Events began on May 20, when 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel Georgia, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.
#Mosses & #lichen growing off a #SoapFlower tree. Lichen looks like hammered shield lichen but I'm not totally sure. I don't know what type of mosses these are. There's lots of fallen, tiny, soap berry petals on them.
#CFP for "Symposium on Black Methods in Science, Technology, and Innovation Research in Canada and Beyond" closing today -- there's still time to submit!
‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban
"António Guterres called on news and tech media to stop enabling “planetary destruction” by taking #FossilFuelAdvertising money while warning the world faces “#climate crunch time” in its faltering attempts to stem the crisis."
"Both [#Canada's] federal government and B.C.’s provincial government are facing increased pressure to put an end to misleading #FossilFuel#advertising."
"Until last week western #Canada had been enduring a cold spring but the rapid onset of #unseasonably high temperatures, in places 10-15C above the average for early May, is causing #fires and #flooding."
Wonder what it takes for #Alberta and Albertans to connect the dots.
"Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than the US state of West Virginia, new research has found.
It’s about the same amount of carbon dioxide that 647m cars put in the air in a year, based on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data.
The #wildfires in #Canada made up 27% of global tree cover loss last year."